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The homeless back alley rally build

Just picked up a used 1:10 rally. Going to be putting together a durable rally car in the coming weeks. Going to try to stay somewhat within the budget of 550 total but we'll see. Not looking for a beauty queen.. But definatly in search of the holy RC grail... (The R/C that doesn't break every time you take it out)

I have TONS of slash 4x4 parts in my inventory and a few after market bits that will be going on.
When I do a build like this I try to buy as much used as possible but in this case some of the parts I'm needing just dont show up on the interwebs in used condition very often so this should be a challenge.

So to start. the rally set me back 280 shipped. Thats with the full compliment of telemetry sensors and some standard issue sway bars.

Next up... I'll keep you updated. Should have the rig sometime early next week.

Your going to be real pleased with the brace. I just installed one on my platinum slash and it does wonders to streghten the chassis. I tried flexing my chassis with it on and it was solid, and I'm running RPM shock towers....

Do you think the roll cage might work better for strengthing the chassis and protecting electronics at the same time? For the price difference it almost seems like it might be a better deal to just buy the roll cage and skip the brace. Any thoughts?

I thought about the roll cage.. I'm in Florida and most of my running territory is sandy so a chassis shroud is MANDATORY! to keep the chassis somewhat clear. With the cage it just wouldn't be easy to access the chassis, Having to reach through the cage and then having to unzip the shroud to change a battery ever 25 minutes seems like a pain in the butt. I had a cage on my revo for awhile and it was great but the batteries were not having to be stuffed in under it.

Also, I'll be switching this between slash and rally bodies and the brace is highly universal.

Just gotta hope the wheel offset doesn't interfere with rubbing the body. I don't think it will but just putting that out there. Btw that body looks sick!

Thanks! I got lucky with this one! I'm having another focus body painted up as I type! The wheels are for the slash 4x4 in particular. and the body was created for slash conversions so I assume they will mesh with ease.

Got it yesterday afternoon, took it for a quick run on 3s and then hit the bench with it. Here we are so far. Still have some tuning to do and some parts to add But I'm waiting for things to break before I add them. You'll notice the front power strokes are only single stage. I have found that setup to work better for me in the past so I'm testing it out on the rally..